Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who smuggled hundreds of thousands classified military and diplomatic records out of Iran in 2010 and disclosed them to WikiLeaks, has written a memoir.
The book, README.txt: A Memoir, does not focus on her years in prison (in 2013 she was sentenced to 35 years in military prison before President Obama commuted her sentence and she was released in 2017) but rather on her childhood, what drew her to the military and her fight to defend her rights as a trans woman.
The day after the sentencing in 2013, Manning’s attorney issued a press release to the Today show announcing that his client was a female, and asked that she be referred to by her new name of Chelsea and feminine pronouns.
Prior to the release of the memoir, Chelsea has been sharing photos of her modeling a red hot bikini, as seen above and below.
She captioned the bikini boat pic above: “on a pirate themed boat off the coast of Rhodes, Greece.”
Chelsea Manning is promoting README.txt: A Memoir (which will be released on Tuesday, October 18) on talk shows including The View on Monday, October 17 at 11 am.
